I am half way through my Senior year and it has been a complete struggle so far. Between excessive schoolwork and college application deadlines, I feel like I have no time to pause and breathe. Having to juggle 6 demanding classes every day is hard enough but with college stuff added on top, I feel like I’m drowning. I know all the struggle will be worth it at the end but I can’t help but feel like I’m being buried alive. I have one word that explains everything, Senioritis. Senioritis is as real as the Earth we walk on. I know I shouldn’t blame my procrastination on that but it seems right.
As of now, I am on pace in all my classes but one, Food Service and Hospitality. The reason behind this is that we cook about every single time we have that class and when we don’t cook, Ms. Koch gives us all the work we’re behind on all at once. It’s hard to catch up on her work when I also have other work for more important classes and other deadlines. Food Service and Hospitality is a class that I need for my pathway so I need to catch up before the semester is over. Hopefully I’ll be on pace before winter break. Aside from that, one thing that I have been putting my time on is my Senior Website. As of now I am almost done with all the requirements, but I need one more journal. I plan to write that journal about half way through my second semester in March or earlier. One thing I really need to do is ask an LF to look over my website and see if that journal is really the only thing I need. One thing that I have noticed and I see as interesting is how much I’ve grown since I moved to LHS. I went from someone who couldn’t stand the idea of a new life to someone who accepted the major change and made something out of it. Because of this, one thing I am most looking forward in my Senior year is the college acceptance letters from all the schools I’ve applied to so far. In total I have applied to 9 schools: UC Merced, Irvine, San Diego, and Santa Barbara, CSU Channel Islands, Fullerton, San Francisco, and San Diego, and University of the Pacific. By the end of this year, I’ll have applications submitted to about 8 more schools. 3 of them will be out of state, and the rest will be around California. So far, I have received one acceptance letter to CSU Channel Islands. Although it’s a provisional acceptance, I can’t help but be excited that I got into my first choice of CSUs. Hopefully I’ll be seeing more of those acceptance letters next year. My goal for this year is to finish the semester strong and be ready for another semester that will be even more demanding and stressful. Hopefully by the end of this High School roller coaster I’ll see how much I’ve grown as a person and go on to become someone. As of now my plans for the future changed just the slightest. I went from wanting to become a Pediatrician to wanting to become a Family Physician. I plan to do great things with the MD I’ll have in about 13 years that will benefit my people and community in so many ways. The joy of getting to help people in a working class community and lower is what is making me strive to become a Doctor in the future no matter how long it will take.
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